Writing

Words from the table.

On nervous systems, kitchens, motherhood, business, and the long practice of choosing yourself.

Why Your Business Strategy Needs to Start With Your Body

Most business advice assumes a regulated nervous system. It doesn't say that — it just assumes it. Here's what to do when yours isn't, and why that's actually where the real strategy begins.

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The Myth of the Mom Who Has It Together

She doesn't exist. But we keep performing her anyway — at the expense of everything that actually matters. A note on what it looks like to stop.

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Communal Cooking Is Not a Nice Extra. It's a Biological Need.

When we cook together, something happens in our nervous systems that no productivity tool can replicate. Here's the science — and the story — behind why I keep putting women around tables.

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My Nonno Became a Painter at 70. Here's What That Taught Me About Waiting.

He picked up a brush in retirement and never looked back. I watched him. And then I kept deferring. This is the story of what changed — and what a funeral had to do with it.

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Mise en Place Is Not a Productivity Hack. It's a Philosophy.

In a professional kitchen, everything has a place before the heat comes on. Here's how I apply that to life, business, and the mornings that would otherwise swallow me whole.

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